Caffe Bickford is now linuxcaffe, and you're invited !

[Jason Shein]

William Park wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 06:40:16PM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 16:27, William Park wrote:
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>>>Will you be installing computer stations much like "Internet Cafe"
>>>types?  Thin-client is the canonical solution for this, and I can give a
>>>hand with that, if you like.
>>>      
>>>
>>Did I not mention internet caffe ? Silly me ! 
>>I have debated thin client at length, but worry about performance.
>>Rather than the typical rows of terminals, I plan to aquire a motly
>>assortment of elderly thinkpad laptops (233mhz+) spray painted by local
>>artists. These I plan to load with a common base, (debian ?) a lighter
>>desktop (XFWM ? Gnome 2.8+ if it will keep up) and to "top up" with apps
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>
>I recommend
>    - Slackware because it's only 2GB full install,
>    - Fvwm95 because it looks like Windows95.
>
>Will you be selling those laptops, after people decided that they like
>the laptop that they've been using for the last few days?  It would be
>an interesting way of selling used laptops.
>
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May I recommend pxes ( http://pxes.sourceforge.net ) bootable cd's ( 
customized for your network ) or boot roms running to a freeNX server on 
your choice distro. I have had luck running the free NX server on debian 
and SuSE 9.1.

Just my 2-cents.

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